In 2014, Pascoal da Conceição who played the villain Dr. Abobrinha, escaped an armed robbery after the assailant recognized him by the program's character. The criminal just apologized and ran away.
In July 16th, 2014 an exhibition featuring the character's wardrobe, props, puppets, setting etc. was opened in São Paulo to celebrate the series' 20th anniversary.
Wagner Bello who portrayed Etevaldo the E.T. sadly passed away during shooting. His friend Siomara Schroder honored him and played a female counterpart of the character, his cousin Etecetera.
Doctors Tíbio and Perônio are named after the two bones Tibia and Fibula (also named Peronio in Brazilian Portuguese).
One of the doctors is portrayed Flávio de Souza, who is also a writer of several child novels in Brazil and the creator of Ilha Rá-Tim-Bum (2002), set in the same universe.